Friday, October 19, 2012

Pottery Barn Placemats to Pillows

DIY Pottery Barn Fall Pillows from placemats for under $7

I love shopping Outlet malls for the discounts but when shopping at the Pottery Barn Outlet, swooning over all of the great fall pillow covers, I was a bit shocked that they were still $30 for just the cover and then you had to buy the insert separately.

I'm just too cheap for that though so I continued to look around for other great deals and when I came across the table decor and saw the gorgeous fall placemats an idea came to me. I could open up the seams and stuff my own pillows with the placemats!

I quickly grabbed a mat and flipped it over to check the price $6.99 each!

Much better than $30 but even better, they were all 20% off!! Now I can get down with that :) I grabbed a few and made my way back to the pillow section to check out the pillow insert prices, ummm yeah, wasn't in the budget, so a trip to Goodwill would be next on the agenda.

So after running through Goodwill for some $1 pillows I got to work...

I cut open a little seam

Then cut open the Goodwill pillow and removed the stuffing

Shoved that stuffing into the opening in the placemat

Looking good!!

Now I do know how to sew so I just ran that little corner through the sewing machine, if you however do not have a sewing machine or don't want to sew, you could always buy some steam-a-seam and iron that seam closed.

Here they are in all their glory on the front porch

Not bad for under $7 each pillow!!

See you back tomorrow for the full front porch all decked out for Fall :)

About Me

The hubby and I met working as Air Traffic Controllers. When our first was born I became the official At Home Controller ;) Adding our second child, a boy, upped the chaos and it's got completely out of control when we added our German Shepherd (AKA the shedder)

My husband works as an Enroute Air Traffic Controller (hence the blog name) and I still control all things at home, somedays mostly well ;)

Now that we've bought our first house I'm busier than ever. I still spend a huge portion of my days sweeping up dog hair but in between running the vacuum and feeding/cleaning the children I'm starting to transform our home one little chaotic project at a time.